2,497 Quotes About Parenting

By the emphasis on love and good works and all of those wonderful things in school and at home, parents sometimes fail to teach how to recognize the coiled rattlesnake.

At least he kept trying to express himself, his real self, as motley and inchoate for now as the outfit he was wearing. And maybe that was part of the purpose of middle school: to give you something to work against, to press upon, as you attempted to fashion a self from the lump of contradictory impulses and emotions and paradigms that your mind and your culture presented.

Santo had the right to love them both equally, without feeling the pressure of having one parent's dislike of the other to corrupt his view - a point brought home to them both by a stern grandmother, who had found herself flung into the role of referee between them at a time when their mutual hostility had been running at its highest.

My brother shielded her from the harsh realities of life but, as you must know, the parents ought not to pluck the thorns out before they hand down the roses to their children; it is not always possible to shield your child against all the disappointments that life bestows. A day comes when a child has to face life on her own and, as a parent, one has to make sure that the child is ready.

Some may argue that we shouldn't shelter our children. We should let them see and experience the sins that are all around us. By keeping the children unaware, they say, we are preventing the development of their defenses. I disagreed. We have our whole lives to experience the ugliness, our whole lives to grapple with society's misplaced priorities. Trying to give a child a childhood was nothing to be ashamed of.

Faulty values negatively influence the soul. If a person is not careful, they can be brainwashed without knowing it.

I am wounded. I am marked by old codes, which shielded me in one world and then chained me in the next.

True parents would love their children from the heart and discipline them simultaneously so they ca n pursue success in the future with adequate happiness.

It was one of those truths about raising a child that was almost impossible to imagine. The fact that these things would disappear, the body-to-body connection that began that first day in the hospital would one day come to an end.